A whole three-bed house in Heworth, York.

A whole house, not a flat in a block

Heworth is a quiet, leafy residential area just outside York city centre. The house sits on a residential street there, with its own driveway at the front and a fenced garden behind.

It is the only whole house among the homes we let. No shared hallway, no communal front door, nobody above you.

• Three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
• A kitchen that opens straight onto a dining area seating four.
• A lounge with two sofas, a smart TV and an electric fire, opening through to the dining area.
• A private, fully fenced rear garden and patio, with a table and chairs outside.
• One free private driveway space directly outside the property.
• Self check-in by lockbox from 4pm, after an online ID check. Check-out by 10am.

Who sleeps where

Six is the capacity. For a work team the split matters more than the number, so here it is in full.

• Bedroom one: a double.
• Bedroom two: a double. The listing's photograph captions show one of the two doubles is a loft room under the eaves, lit by a skylight.
• Bedroom three: a single.
• Lounge: a double sofa bed.
• Five of the six sleep in a bedroom. The sixth is on the sofa bed, in the room everyone else is sitting in.
• A team of three gets a bedroom each. A team of four means two people share a double, or one takes the sofa bed.

Working from it

Fibre Wi-Fi runs throughout the house. No speed is published for this property anywhere, so we are not going to quote one — if a specific throughput is a condition of the booking, ask before you commit and we will get you a measured figure.

• Fibre Wi-Fi throughout.
• The workspace is the dining table: four seats, open-plan to the kitchen. There is no separate desk.
• Two bathrooms, which matters on a weekday morning when three people are trying to leave at once.
• Blackout blinds.
• Quiet hours from 10pm. It is a residential street and the neighbours are permanent.

The kitchen, the laundry and the garden

The washing machine is the thing that makes a six-week stay work rather than a six-night one. Guesty's listing puts it the same way — it is "what makes the house work for longer stays and contractor bookings".

• Washing machine in the house.
• Kitchen: hob, oven, microwave, fridge-freezer, kettle, toaster, cookware, crockery and utensils.
• Private, fully fenced rear garden and patio with an outdoor table and chairs — yours alone, not shared with anyone.
• Professionally cleaned before every stay, with fresh linen.
• Local shops, cafes and takeaways on the doorstep.
• Pets welcome with prior approval: £100 per pet per stay, maximum two dogs or one cat.

What it costs, and what gets added

The live rate changes with demand and the dates you choose. Guesty shows the exact price and the £95 cleaning fee per stay before payment. Prices and fees include VAT.

Guesty applies any eligible long-stay adjustment before payment.

• £95 cleaning per stay, shown before payment. Includes VAT.
• Any eligible long-stay adjustment shown in Guesty before payment.
• Stays over ten nights add a mid-stay housekeeping visit, charged separately.
• Stays of twenty-eight nights or more require a refundable security deposit of £300–£500. Shorter stays can take a non-refundable damage waiver instead.
• Early check-in and late check-out are £20 an hour in fixed steps, bookable through the guest portal. Earliest in is midday; latest out is 1pm.

Things we would rather tell you now than at the door

Everything below is in our own listing somewhere. It is easier to read it before you book than to find it out in week two.

• It is not the city centre. Ten minutes by car, about thirty on foot. If someone in the party needs to walk into the centre every morning, this is the wrong house.
• The driveway holds one car. It is free and it is directly outside, but a three-car crew leaves two on the street. On-street parking nearby is free.
• One of the two doubles is a loft room under the eaves with a skylight. That comes from the listing photographs rather than the written description, so if headroom or an extra flight of stairs matters to anyone, ask us to confirm before you book.
• There is no separate desk. You work at the dining table.
• The kitchen list runs hob, oven, microwave, fridge-freezer, kettle, toaster, cookware, crockery and utensils. A dishwasher is not on it — ask us if that decides it for you.
• The house uses noise and air-quality monitoring. It exists to catch parties and indoor smoking, but you should know it is there before you commit to six weeks.
• The sixth bed is a sofa bed in the lounge, not a bedroom.

Getting about

• York city centre is a ten-minute drive, a short bus ride, or about thirty minutes on foot.
• York Minster, the Shambles, the riverside walks and the restaurants are within that same ten-minute drive.
• York station reaches Leeds in 25 minutes and London King's Cross in under two hours.
• The A64 and A1079 are easily accessible — the house is well placed for teams working across the York, Leeds and Harrogate corridor.
• One free private driveway space directly outside the property, with free on-street parking nearby.
• Local shops, cafes and takeaways are on the doorstep.

Who it suits

A crew of three or four working across the York, Leeds and Harrogate corridor who need separate bedrooms rather than a shared apartment, and single contractors or consultants on a placement long enough that cooking and laundry stop being optional. Also families. The three bedrooms, the two bathrooms and the washing machine are what make it hold up over weeks; the free driveway is why people leave the car and bus or walk into the centre instead of paying to park there. It is the wrong house for anyone who has to be inside the city walls on foot every morning, and for a team where everyone drives separately.

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